Lee and Low Books 11th Annual New Voices Award
Sunday, September 5th, 2010From Lee and Low Books:
The Lee & Low Books eleventh annual New Voices Award is accepting submissions through September 30th (postmark date).
The Award will be given for a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color. The Award winner receives a cash grant of $1000 and our standard publication contract, including our basic advance and royalties for a first time author. An Honor Award winner will receive a cash grant of $500.
Established in 2000, the New Voices Award encourages writers of color to submit their work to a publisher that takes pride in nurturing new talent. Past New Voices Award submissions that we have published include The Blue Roses, winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People; Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist selection; and Bird, an ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Cooperative Children’s Book Center “Choices” selection.
The contest is open to writers of color who are residents of the United States and who have not previously had a children’s picture book published.
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